Sentence examples for spacecraft bus from inspiring English sources

LADEE, launched on September 6, 2013, was the first spacecraft based on the Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), an inexpensive modular platform that was designed to do away with the need to build a new spacecraft for each new mission.

These were then stitched into the thermal blankets inside the main spacecraft bus, as a memorial to those whose ingenuity, skill and support had made these unique machines possible.

These heaters are controlled by the spacecraft bus heater system.

TAS, at its Rome facility, developed the spacecraft bus, or chassis.

Together this Project has accumulated 14.6 years of on-orbit experience without a spacecraft bus failure.

The μLPT operates on spacecraft bus voltage, and weighs 0.85 kg.

Its mission objective is to demonstrate a micro-spacecraft bus technology for deep space exploration and proximity flyby to asteroids performing optical measurements.

Laser altimeters also play an important role in spacecraft navigation as bus instruments.

The bus-size spacecraft has been operating with only two of its three stabilizing gyroscopes since December, and NASA officials calculated that if it lost another gyroscope and came down on its own, there would be a 1-in-1,000 chance that someone would be killed by the debris.

The solar electric spacecraft implementation would impose additional bus design constraints, including large solar arrays that could pose challenges for terminal guidance.

The spacecraft, the size of a small bus, is to go into orbit around Saturn on June 30.